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Thought-of-the-Day
September 2017 Archive

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09/01/17"Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got." - Rose Cherin
09/02/17"Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind." - Evan Esar
09/03/17"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents." - Eric Hoffer
09/04/17"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." - Mark Twain
09/05/17"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
09/06/17"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it." - Stephen Leacock
09/07/17"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have." - Anne Tyler
09/08/17"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle
09/09/17"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality." - Henry David Thoreau
09/10/17"You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but A Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile." - John Green
09/11/17"I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family." - Madeleine Albright
09/12/17"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire." - Whoopi Goldberg
09/13/17"Beware of the young doctor and the old barber." - Benjamin Franklin
09/14/17"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." - Aesop
09/15/17"A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad." - Bob Edwards
09/16/17"I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there." - Belle Livingstone
09/17/17"Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are." - Laurence J. Peter
09/18/17"There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open." - Emmet Fox
09/19/17"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for." - Dag Hammarskjold
09/20/17"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates
09/21/17"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment." - Jane Austen
09/22/17"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." - Charles Dickens
09/23/17"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." - Mahatma Gandhi
09/24/17"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King Jr.
09/25/17"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities." - Frank Lloyd Wright
09/26/17"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all." - Winston Churchill
09/27/17"I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder." - Jay Leno
09/28/17"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." - Johnny Carson
09/29/17"He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed." - David Frost
09/30/17"Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves." - Jane Austen


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